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Premananda Indic  

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Department of Physics
University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125

Office: S–4–031
Email: here
Phone: 617 287 6050
Fax: 617 287 6053



Research Interests
The major goals of my research are: (1) to develop a theoretical framework to understand how hetero- geneously coupled networks of oscillators organize and to determine how such a population of oscillators can be controlled (2) to develop signal processing algorithms to detect the dynamical behaviors of the output signal generated by a population of cellular oscillators. My research has applications in understanding the mechanisms underlying disease states associated with the abnormal behavior of oscillators such as circadian dysrhythmias, apnea, and epilepsy as well as the co-ordination of pacemakers with physiological and neurobehavioral functions.

Current Research Projects
2008–   Investigator,
A Computational Tool Based on Heart Beat Dynamics to Predict Apnea Episodes in Infants
Center for Integrative Medicine and Innovative Technology,
Duration: 1 year, PI: Riccardo Barbieri, Harvard Medical School
2008–   Co-Investigator,
Nonlinear Analysis of EEG signals to determine the interaction between different areas
of the cerebral cortex during epilepsy
UMass Memorial Health Care Systems,
Duration: 2 years, PI: Jaishree Narayanan, UMass Med. School
2007–   Investigator,
A Pathological Disturbances in Respiratory Rhythm
Department of Clinical and Translational Science, UMass Med. School.,
Duration: 2 years, PI: David Paydarfar, UMass Med. School

Selected Publications  
Modeling the behavior of coupled cellular oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
P. Indic, W. J. Schwartz, E. D. Herzog, N. C. Foley and M. C. Antle,
J. Bio. Rhythms 22, 211 (2007) (Review Article)

Characterizing the amplitude dynamics of the human core temperature circadian rhythm
using a stochastic-dynamic model
P. Indic and E. N. Brown
J. Theoretical Biology 239, 499 (2006)  

Comparison of amplitude recovery dynamics of two limit cycle oscillator models
of the human circadian pacemaker
P. Indic, D. B. Forger, M. A. St. Hilaire, D. A. Dean, E. N. Brown et al.,
Chronobiology International 22, 613 (2005)

Effect of time scales on the unfolding of neural attractors
R. Pravitha, P. Indic, V. P. N. Nampoori, R. Pratap,
Int. J. Neuroscience 111, 175 (2001)